SALT'S HOLE

SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023187
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: SALT'S HOLE
Statutory Address:: SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023187
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: SALT'S HOLE
Statutory Address 1:: SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Purton
National Grid Reference:: SU 08429 90608

Details

SU 09 SE PURTON STOKE COMMON LANE Purton Stoke

8/341 Salt's Hole

II

Salt spring well house, 1859. Brick, rendered and lined as ashlar above brick plinth. slate roof. Octagonal, with small side buttresses. Central door with 2-centred arch and trefoil headed windows either side, all with ashlar surrounds. Carved bargeboards with timber pendents at angles. Apex of roof has a turned wood finial. Interior has simple fireplace on back wall and plaster flat ceiling. To rear, two 2-light windows above ceiling. Well in centre with iron-bound stone capping. Inscription over door reads: THE ANCIENT /SALT'S HOLE/SULPHATED AND BROMO-IODATED/SALINE WATER/ANALYSED BY D VOELKER 1860. This building, and the adjoining Spa Cottage at Purton based on this saline spring rich in phosphate of lime. (Reference: Richardson, M S. The Storey of Purton, 1919).

Listing NGR: SU0842990608

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Legacy System number:: 317986
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Richardson, M S, The Story of Purton, (1919)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.